This grant will aid the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), which supports student success for over 438,000 students at 13 public universities nationally, to execute the second phase of Listen Labs. Listen Labs assists colleges in developing a systematic approach to elevating student voices and experiences on campus with the aim to integrate these insights into existing decision-making structures and drive policy changes and solutions, ultimately fostering improved student success. View Website

Southwest Folklife Alliance seeks to build more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage and diversity and amplifying models of community development by placing culture at the center of economic inclusion and equity. View Website

Reframe Youth Arts Center uses culture and creativity to support youth in developing programs that directly impact their lives, including health and wellness education and youth entrepreneurship. View Website

This grant will support the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) to design, implement, and scale an adaptable and systematic approach for elevating student voices to improve institutional policy, educational decisions and, ultimately, student graduation rates. UIA will train campus partners to conduct consistent, representative focus groups that elevate the learners’ voices and translate their insights into action and policy that improve student outcomes. View Website

This grant will enable Chicanos Por La Causa to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through their previous HEH grant, the organization implemented a Tenant Health and Housing Policy Academy to determine policy priorities of tenants. View Website

Our Community Arts effort is a national pilot designed to test the use of arts and culture as a civic-engagement tool to help residents in five urban cities address pressing community issues. The Tucson-Pima Arts Council is serving as the intermediary for this effort in Tucson and is receiving funding over two years to support local arts and culture projects. View Website

Each year, more than 2,600 women and children who are victims of domestic abuse receive crisis and renewal shelter, education and counseling, case management and referrals, lay legal advocacy, and other assistance through the Tucson Center, now called Emerge! This 36-month bridge loan from the Community Relief Fund, which offered program-related investments to high-performance human-service organizations that were providing food, shelter, and other emergency services during the economic crisis, helps to maintain 120 shelter beds while a new program model is implemented. View Website

 In partnership with 500 human-service organizations, the alliance distributes more than 43 million pounds of food while promoting awareness, advocacy, and education to help eliminate hunger. The challenge-grant funded expansion and renovation of the Thomas Road facility provides space for the Kid’s Café, Community Kitchen, and agency food selection and distribution program. View Website

With its 30-year track record, the center has proven to be a leader in developing long-term programs that extend beyond crisis intervention to help domestic-violence victims move forward in their lives. Grant funding enables the organization to maintain the services offered by its emergency shelter and transitional and supportive housing. View Website

The grassroots nonprofit is dedicated to protecting and restoring the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island region of the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The alliance is using this three-year grant to engage academic, governmental, and environmental advocacy partners in the development of comprehensive, collaborative climate change adaptation strategies for the region. View Website

The grassroots organization is dedicated to protecting and restoring the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island region of the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The alliance is using this funding to implement a comprehensive, collaborative climate change adaptation strategy for the region, in partnership with academic, tribal, governmental and environmental advocacy partners. View Website

Part of Pima County’s Community and Economic Development, the agency works to improve the quality of life for residents, particularly in economically and socially disadvantaged communities. This grant covers consulting services to help develop a “Pay for Success” model for human services programs. View Website

One-third of North Country’s patients are uninsured, working poor, making it an important provider of full-spectrum medical and dental services to underserved residents in nine rural communities. This three-year grant supports the “Hermosa Vida”project, a collaborative initiative to provide low-income children with access to health information, fitness programs, nutrition counseling, and healthy lifestyle supports. The effort is part of our Safety Net Enhancement Initiative. View Website

One-third of North Country’s patients are uninsured, working poor, making it an important provider of full-spectrum medical and dental services to underserved residents in nine rural communities. This grant supports the development and advancement of the “Hermosa Vida”project, a collaborative initiative to provide low-income children with access to health information, fitness programs, nutrition counseling and healthy lifestyle supports, as part of the Safety-Net Enhancement Initiative, a cohort of eight communities around the country addressing health disparities through multi-sector collaboration. View Website

With this grant, Mijente will build and scale campaigns on police and immigration enforcement and accountability to influence police reform in key cities; support its network with policy strategy and analysis, strategic communications and technical assistance to strengthen local organizing and campaigns; create a support network for Latinx families that have lost loved ones to police violence; increase Afro-Latinx leadership and representation within the organization; and engage in peer learning through a network of place-based and national racial justice organizations. Launched in 2015, Mijente builds the political power of Latinx and Chicanx communities seeking racial, economic, gender and climate justice through civic engagement, advocacy campaigns, narrative and culture shift, and leadership development. View Website

This grant supports Mijente, a national civil rights and advocacy organization, to advance non-partisan civic education, engagement, and voter mobilization for underrepresented Latinx voters during the 2020 election cycle.  View Website

This financial amendment will support the organization's continued work to advance racial equity and anti-racist work driven by a focus on social and economic mobility from one generation to the next. View Website

This grant will support Maricopa County Human Services Department to institutionalize a two-generation whole family approach across all its divisions by expanding the use of its family-centered coaching model and improving service delivery coordination across the agency. View Website

CPLC's mission is to drive economic and political empowerment, and offers the promise of opportunity through four core service areas: Housing, Economic Development, Health and Human Services and Education.  With this funding, CPLS will  convene a cross-sector table to drive investment in affordable housing as a health intervention in Maricopa County, Arizona.  View Website

Committed to serving low-income urban and rural residents, the community-development corporation offers holistic social and human-services programs in addition to housing and economic-development assistance. Hurt by the economic downturn and government cutbacks, the agency is using this 36-month bridge loan from the Community Relief Fund – which offered program-related investments to high-performance human-service organizations that were providing food, shelter and other emergency services during the economic crisis – to help cover its current operating expenses. View Website